– NBC Radio – Conversation: What Inventions Have Benefitted Mankind Most? – Nov. 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years ago there was no such thing as the Internet. Computers were massive and it never occurred to anyone in a million years that such a device could be
David Hockney and Bigger Trees Near Water – The Era Of Enormous Landscapes David Hockney – BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – June 15, 2007 One of the problems with being on the planet long enough is that sense of assuming all the people whose work you grew up
Voices In The Wind – Oscar Brand (L) – Odetta (Upper Right Corner) Robert Penn Warren (Center) Garson Kanin (Lower Right Corner) – just one episode. Somebody once told me our society was doomed once we stopped being curious. Curious about people, about places, about events, about the day-to-day. When
– CBS Radio – Newsmark – Arthur Ashe, Roberston Davies, Sen. John Tower – May 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Two interesting and diverse interviews this weekend, and something political to keep it all strange and current. An episode from the weekly CBS Radio series Newsmark. This one,
Our Foreign Policy – Question of China – May 25, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-war Far East. The long process of rebuilding and negotiating. The question in 1946 had much to do with China. Under attack and at war since 1937 – overrun by Japanese troops and
– CBS Radio: Sunday Night With Mitch Miller – 2nd Annual Eastman House Festival of Film Artists – November, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before color, before 3D, before 5.1 surround sound, before IMAX, movies were silent. The only sound came from either an orchestra playing to accompany the
CBS Radio: Mexican-Americans – The People Act – January 27, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Given the highly-charged nature of this years election – the question of Immigration and Immigrants in general seems to have taken center-stage – or at least vying for center stage, amidst the flood of
April 20, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day of sweeping changes, April 20th, 1979 – although at the time it didn’t seem that way. The free elections in Rhodesia were regarded as a footnote, almost an afterthought on many news programs. But
March 30, 1951 – CBS Radio: Hear It Now with Edward R. Murrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1951 – What this week sounded like in 1951, and a look at Hollywood at a crossroads. A week loaded with drama – from hearings on Organized Crime to
Historic moments from 1967 – The first Human Heart transplant, which took place on December 3, 1967 at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Surgeons removed the heart of a young who died after an automobile crash and placed it woman in the chest of a 55-year-old man dying
